Hooters Sloan Washes Ashore In The Bahamas, Tim Duncan Surfaces & A Wild Bowling Ball Knockout
The next wave of TNML polos are officially shipping and I know because I bought one to mail out to my father & I have the tracking code
Now comes the interesting part: Will my father actually wear the polo? It's not that he won't like the shirt and the colors, it's that my dad is a t-shirt guy. He's straight out of 1973. Give him a t-shirt, and he'll wear it loyally for 20 years.
That's why, at his age, this polo is going to be a big test. Will he wear it to the golf course? Will he wear it out to dinner here and there? Will he wear it when he's in Florida where it would be a huge hit? Will it sit in a closet? Will he say how much he loves the polo, only to say he's just not sure if it's "his style"?
We'll find out.
Grilling in the rain: Is it worth it?
- Indy Daryl writes:
I don’t have Instagram, so I can’t help but do it all for the grill instead! Raining, with heavier stuff in the distance, but can’t deter my grilling aspirations. Have a great Monday evening!
How do you handle being thrown off your routine like Warren in Florida whose favorite Latin American fast-casual announced it's closing?
- Grumpy Dean in Georgia writes:
Wow, that hit me right in the breadbasket. Dean from Monroe Ga here. Outkick grumpy old man.
Im so set in my ways I can't stand a change in my routine. Everything from the thanksgiving/ xmas holidays to my honda mechanic closing shop.
The holidays take me out of my routine, people off or places closing. Dang it get back to work people, u messing my routine. Cant go anywhere cause people are off, everything's crowded, govt workers not at their job, might as well go to sleep and wake up in jan. Nothing gets done.
Holidays are the worse, cant fish cause everyone's at the lake. Get off my lawn!!!!
My Honda guy retired, 25 yrs I used him. I was devastated. My men's group doesn't meet during the holidays, again my routine goes kaput.
I line a good rut.
Kids and how they watch sports
- Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. writes:
Circling back to our previous dialogue on kids following MLB via social media & not actually watching the game, see the link below. I think my son is on IG & TicTok way more than X, but this is how kids "watch" sports now.
Travel Ball Chronicles
– Duncan in Georgia writes:
Another fun day of travel baseball! I finally got to see a coach go after an umpire, this coach was bumping him, calling him the N word (both were African American), and had to be pulled off the field. 11U travel baseball just isn't that important - and we were in the silver bracket! Can only imagine what happens in the gold bracket. And I saw Kirby Smart, he was watching his son play. I didn't see one person bother him, I'm sure he enjoys being left alone. Keep enjoying house ball!
– Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. doesn't think one of my predictions will come true:
Disgusting parents, and disgusting spectators in general exist at most youth sports unfortunately. There are plenty of them at travel baseball, but they're on the sidelines at pretty much all youth sports and their kids will likely be some of the first to quit the game.
I don't know if high school ball is really threatened by the growth of travel ball, but middle school ball is without a doubt. Those coaches have their work cut out for them, particularly with pitching.
As you continue to champion the merits of rec ball, consider getting more involved than just coaching. I spent 7 years on the board and it was very rewarding. If you want to find info that might help you coaching, look here:
https://positivecoach.org/resource-zone/
A few things that I learned from PCA...
- Q: What is most players' least favorite part of youth sports? A: The drive home.. getting ears full from their parents about what they did wrong in the game.
- Q: What does a player on the field want to hear from his/her parents in the stands? A: Nothing at all.
Kinsey:
What happens when the middle school baseball kids get to the high school level? Do you really think those clubs aren't going to put the full-court press on them to just stay in the academies in the spring when they become freshmen?
Last week, New Lenox, IL broke ground on a $70 million sports complex…for travel sports. Meanwhile, in Marion, IL, the city broke ground on a $30 million sports complex. These are for-profit operations run by organizations that specialize in making money and turning profits off travel sports.
What's the funding model being used to build these complexes? Hotel taxes.
If your city can't get a professional sports team, it can always get a travel sports complex built with tax dollars.
Last week, Blaine, MN announced plans to invest a HALF-BILLION into a sports, mixed use and residential complex to compliment its National Sports Center.
We're in the middle of an arms race and bodies will eventually be at a premium to these cities that have investments on the line. My prediction is that these sports complexes will need to expand their seasons and high school sports will start to pay the price.
Five years. Save this post.
Your reaction?
I'm going with a full summer of cleaning up beaches in sweltering heat and a decent-sized fine.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com
I don't know about your state, but ticketing at school sports in Ohio has been insane since 2020
I assume Ohio isn't the only place where digital ticketing companies came in and set the ground rules on how everything would need to be done via an app. I believe it was from at least 2020-2023 when you couldn't pay cash at a football game to get in.
Then, once the state stepped in to bring back a cash option, you get this where the school doubles the price to use cash.
When the government starts telling us we can't use a gas leaf blower
This is the post being referenced.
- Jimmy D. writes:
Joe: Of course your article is spot on. But you forgot to include the most important point of all, which is the question, "Do we really want to put the geniuses who planned the Afghanistan pull-out, who 'lost' $24b in CA as they 'solved' homelessness there, who intentionally unsecured the southern border, who can't even define 'woman', etc., etc. in charge of ANYTHING?"
I actually have an electric leafblower (no batteries, just plug it into a socket with a 100' cord) for 20 years now, so I don't have a dog in this fight. But I would just like to see the woke left have one good idea or solve one little problem before we listen to what they're saying.
Big Mac playground
- Alex R. writes:
Seeing this pic caused me to ponder 2 questions:
1) How many Caps readers have played on this playground?
2) How many climbed through the bars and sat on top of Big Macs hat?
Those were good times.....
Kinsey:
1. I have
2. I think I have; the years in my brain are piling up
Just imagine the reaction now if McDonald's introduced a playground with a Big Mac cop featuring a jail for kids to play in. Of course this would never get past the McDonald's DEI team.
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That's all for this beautiful final day of April 2024. Life just continues to roll on. The months fly by. Just 30 days ago, I was preparing to head to The Masters. Now here we are at the end of the month and it feels like I haven't stopped working since arriving home, but all of this leads up to the four most important months of the year for me: May, June, July and August.
Patio and vacation season.
Let's get after it today. The sun is finally out after 12 hours of rain. The arbs are watered thanks to Mother Nature and the birds are busy.
Have another great day of life.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com